From Miss Earth India To ‘Pataal Lok’ Here’s ‘Badhaai Do’ Star Chum Darang’s Journey So Far
Some movies really find a way to enter our hearts and leave behind some happy residues of love and memorable characters. And while it discovers some newly-found gems along the way, it introduces us to some great hidden talent. Doing that exactly is the Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar starrer film Badhaai Do, that not only initiates a conversation about lavender marriage but gifts the audience with a phenomenal performer–Chum Darang. Well, for the unversed, Chum Darang has portrayed the character of Bhumi’s girlfriend in the Harshavardhan Kulkarni directorial. While many of us might have seen the actress in multiple television advertisements, this big Bollywood break has poured in love and praises for her work in the film. Moreover, the actress is probably one of the most searched names on Google, with people digging in to know more about her. And we being your guide through this hunt, we have for you some unknown facts about the new star on the block.
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Who is Chum Darang?
Chum Darang is a model, turned actress who was born and brought up in a small town called Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh. Entering the world of glitz and glam, the 29-year-old won many beauty pageants including–Miss Earth India 2016, Miss Asia World 2017 North East Diva 2014 and was also the second runners-up in Miss Himalaya in 2015, amongst others. Besides that, she also turned into an entrepreneur with her coffee shop – Café Chu back in her home town. And interestingly enough, she never planned on being an actress.
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Before her big break with Badhaai Do, Chum worked with actors like Akshay Kumar and Ranveer Singh in television commercials and also featured in the Anushka Sharma backed-series, Pataal Lok in 2020. While actors from north-east India, often travel the bumpy road and fight the stereotypes that come along the way. Chum recently opened up about the industry’s set notions about actors from the region and shared with a news portal, “I was offered such roles, like that of a spa employee, and I was scared that if I agreed to do them, I would be typecast. And this is what actors from the northeast fear. Not just in movies, but in day-to-day life as well, things are not easy.”
She further added, “When I was called for my audition for Badhaai Do, and this was in March 2020, on my way to the venue, two boys shouted ‘corona’ at me, and I started crying. For my audition, I had to do a scene that required me to shout, and I could actually do it really well because of that incident.”
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Portraying a character from the LGBTQ community, Chum Darang has really impressed the viewers in Badhaai Do and we can’t wait to see what’s next in store for us.
